A Little Re Cap of 2022

 Some years I scan through the year's posts and choose photos from each month for a look back.

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In 2022 I hosted several months of food link ups I was still doing cast iron posts for awhile and then switched to Food Wednesday-with little interest on my blog, Rain added it to her Art Date posts-thanks again Rain 

January 

Homemade cocoa mix

February

Fried catfish (from the lake)

    Valentine cookies

March

Baltimore orioles visit

Began playing with watercolors again/this month I also organized my craft room

May

A mixed media page-one of my favorites

I was still sharing for Food Wednesdays-a book using your herbs

Gardening began for perennials

June

Lemon meringue pie

I started a bag project from my hand dyes haven't gotten back to that

"deck" duck visitor

One of my favorite lake photos

July

Pirate ship and red headed woodpecker

Keto churned ice cream

I have so enjoyed my slow mail friends this year-this is one of the beautiful cards I had received-This is a permanent spot for this one on the mantel.

   I have received many beautiful surprises and art in my slow mail letters-thank you sososo much slow mail friends.

A gorgeous moon over the lake-out our wall of windows

Homemade pizza

August

Handspun

Hummingbird

In the garden

September

October

A surprise beautiful gift-I will use these hand dyes in the sashiko bags

Another surprise in my mail box

Looking down to the lake-a garden project up on top

November

a journal page with labels from a wine tour with Wisconsin friends

online photo but amazing steak with our Wisconsin friends

Journal page

December

Closing December with homemade biscuits and gravy and two eggs

We enjoy the eagle pair that visits out our front door way up in the trees so much.

    I found this excellent video of the eagle's song on Facebook-best I have seen and heard Here is a link, located at a raptor center in Alaska-it wasn't on you tube, so you may have to be on Facebook to view it-worth a look

Welcome in 2023 

T Stands for Tuesday-This & That--Updated around 4pm Missouri Time

   Good morning Everyone,

  Can you  believe it that September is almost over? For me it seems like this month just began instead of ending already.

  I was late for posting to T last week, so thought I would post earlier this week. Anyone is welcome to join us along with a drink related photo-link in my sidebar. Bleubeard and Elizabeth is our hostess-thank you Elizabeth for all you do for the group.

We have been enjoying lovely weather this past week, very cool mornings and then warms up during the day. Went through another pile of rocks over the weekend-mostly small ones. I am keeping one hummingbird feeder out as we are still seeing hummingbirds every day. Yesterday I didn't have a camera nearby but I was looking out the window and the most beautiful little hummer flew in. Very bright yellow-green wings, white under body and pinkish splashes. Looking it up could have been an Anna's

   photo from online-this is the male

or possibly this one a Broad tail hummingbird

 I am thinking more towards the Anna's but the photo shows more green on his chest  Hoping we may see another one this week. The migration has been going on for awhile so we are getting hummingbird visitors that are migrating It is rare in my area of Missouri I think to see hummingbirds other than the more common ruby throat, at least the 20 years at the woods house we only saw the ruby throated-thinking perhaps the lake water might bring others in.

  Cooler weather wants me eating eggs for breakfast now instead of our usual-Bob's Red Mill gluten free European museli-which is all raw gf grains, slivered almonds, and raisins either with yogurt or one of my nut milks.   This little tea pot with a strainer insert makes the perfect size cup of tea.   I have also been drinking a cup of the herb mullein tea for asthma-it really works.

  The mullein plant grows wild here in Missouri, you can dry the leaves and/or the flowers. I bought a bag of organic mullein, and the flavor is actually really good-was expecting not to like it. You may have seen this plant too

 

       I also got a bit more threaded on my weaving project-I have been doing other things so this is still not all threaded-almost now.  and I discovered I missed counted the threads so half of the grey to the left won't get threaded-a first have never missed counted before-ugh

   Saturday afternoon I had fun in my craft room and played with new to me stamps that I picked up used on Ebay (a great place for buying used-almost new stamps) for my October cards and slow mail friends. I ended up making 18 cards. I feel so organized haha.

   Closing with a few lake views-Happy T and new week

 Here is another heron at our  neighbors to the right of us

This morning's (Monday) sunrise-gorgeous

Update:   We have been missing "our" eagle pair lately-they did not disappoint. First there was one-then I heard allot of singing going on behind me on the lake and the one in the tree-then I didn't see it happen but the male flew to his mate and circled the lake singing away-so cool. I tried to record the song but didn't turn out well.

They both ended up back in the tree but not together-had a hard time getting a decent photo with my very old digital camera. Came in the house for a few minutes went back out and they are now sitting together-perfect!

Can you see the two eagles in this photo?

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